...I have experience as a substitute teacher, teaching assistant, private tutor, certified tutor, and class facilitator. One particular stint was for several months in the Learning Resource Center of a private academy. The majority of students there came specifically for help studying for exams. (read more)
...Critical thinking is part of the process of reading and writing. My tutoring method is to help the student read and write well. I like to know what the student is learning in school and stay close with what they are learning from their school teachers. (read more)
...Student C, a Chinese-American boy who'd not attended school even one day of his sixth grade year, needed over the summer to pass the test to advance to the seventh. C at first refused to leave his room. He'd been traumatized by the "tough" school in his new neighborhood. (read more)
I am a career professional writer and writing teacher. My early years were spent as an advertising copywriter for several Chicago ad agencies and marketing firms where I worked on package goods, retail, fast food, health care and corporate accounts. Following graduate school, I taught undergraduat... (read more)